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Bennett, to refresh your memory, is the one of the rich men from Oklahoma City who bought the Sonics in 2006 and claimed to have no plans to move the team.

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"It's not our intention to move or relocate the teams as long, of course, as we are able to negotiate a successor venue to the current basketball arena," Bennett told the Post-Intelligencer at the time.

A year later, he wrote in an email to Stern (who apparently still trusts the man), "As absolutely remarkable as it may seem, Aubrey [McClendon] and I have NEVER discussed moving the Sonics to Oklahoma City, nor have I discussed it with ANY other member of our ownership group." This email, we soon learned, arrived in Stern's inbox four months after he'd written to co-owner Tom Ward, "I am a man possessed! Will do everything we can" to move the Sonics to Oklahoma City and avoid, in Ward's words, "another lame duck season in Seattle."